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Policy practitioners at the World Bank, OECD, and other development agencies used the term “fragile state” in the 1990s before using the term “failed state. ” The inability to keep citizens safe, the inability to provide public services, add healthcare, and the state’s monopoly on violence are 3 core elements that describe the “failed state. ” The incubation and spread of fatal diseases are also among the many hallmarks of a failed state, as noted by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) in its 2004 report The Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV) on issues of foreign public law he described the failed state or state errors as “the impotence of the central government”. Bourgeois intellectuals began to use the term without questioning the validity of its fundamental concepts. The Failed States Index was designed through the Fund for Peace in 2005. There is no empirical evidence or justification for such an index. But think tanks and academics have begun using such a dummy index to rank states based on their roles and effectiveness in dealing with another crisis bureaucracy and crafting policies accordingly.
The coronavirus pandemic and the disruptions of capitalist states offer an opportunity to question the concepts and goals around the “failed state” and divulge its conceptual ambiguity, theoretical absurdity and empirical errors. The “failed state” thesis and its narratives have evolved as a dazzling critique of postcolonial states in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The motivation was to undermine post-colonial states, their promises of progress, processes and legitimacy in the eyes of their own citizens. The stages of economic growth, modernization and theories have been proposed as opportunities within the Eurocentric paradigm, which has ignored old situations and new constraints to reflect on the realities of asymmetric progressions in the global economy. The concept of such a narrative is to hide imperialist and colonial plunder, which led to the economic sub-progression of post-colonial states and their disorders.
In addition, neocolonial industrial policies have undermined the ability of postcolonial states to have interaction in industry and foreign affairs. The terms of industry globalization are not only unequal and unfair, but also exploitative. Colonial aid policies for industry were designed to lead to the exploitation of the herbal resources of post-colonial states. These are some of the reasons that have led post-colonial states to fail to provide public goods such as fundamental health, education, security, roads, maritime transport and communications infrastructure. Predatory regimes and their cronies have been promoted through Western powers, accelerating the weakening and collapse of post-colonial states. The states of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Nigeria, Somalia and Serra Leone have yielded ind due to the diverse bureaucracy of imperialist and neocolonial interventions. But those states have been called failed states.
The failed state as a concept evolved to organize those weak states and control their obligatory resources for the survival and expansion of capitalism. The bankrupt state was a pretext for imperialist interventions to identify a political regime that is proposed according to the orders of the capitalist states of Europe and America. It is capitalism and its foreign institutional apparatus that have developed the thesis of the failed state to hide the exploitative colonial afterlife and the imperialist present. The failed state as a concept will have to be rejected because it does not serve to analyze and situations of progression and sub-progression in the old contexts of state formations. The failed state index is traditionally flawed and analytically poor. This does not help us to perceive the subjective and objective situations of state failures. positive direction.
Capitalist states like the UK and the US have abandoned their day-to-day constitutional jobs to protect citizens from the COVID-19 pandemic. Plague-driven lockdown pushes to rethink, reflect and reject Eurocentric ideological narratives of “Westphalian Nation-States”; Capitalist in letter and spirit. This is also the time to rewrite the ideological and dominance narratives of the so-called good fortune stories of Western states and their universalizing tendencies of capitalism as the only alternatives. In reality, capitalist states love; Not only has the United States failed to cope with the pandemic, but the USDA, under Trump’s leadership, is doing everything imaginable to eliminate nutritional benefits for more than a million Americans who are entirely dependent on coupons. food. The UK, under the Conservative government led by Boris Johnson, has failed to provide essential safety nets for frontline workers. The government plans to further weaken the current elegance by freezing wages and eliminating the triple block pension formula to finance the debt and cover the deficit due to the coronavirus crisis. Ethically indefensible, but the UK’s Malthusian capitalist state lacks an ethical compass. The capitalist states of France, Italy and Spain have also failed to protect their citizens during this pandemic. These Westphalian states were formed to consolidate capitalism in the mid-17th century, but failed miserably to cope with the demanding situations of the crisis of public fitness during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Failure shows the limits of capitalist states and the fallacies of the failed state as narrative. Countries like China, Cuba and Vietnam have achieved this thanks to their rapid, clinical and collective reaction to the crisis. But this is unacceptable to the defenders of the failed state thesis.
However, the rise of radical right-wing political parties and their reactionary nationalist policies give bankrupt capitalist states a respite. Popular discontent is externalized through conspiracy theorists and their propaganda device to undermine the good fortunes of China, Cuba and Vietnam in handling the coronavirus crisis. The rising tide of xenophobia provides capitalist states with more strength to hide their mistakes under a security canopy that undermines citizens’ civil liberties. Emergency measures and the suspension of normality help capitalist states deflect democratic discontent and resistance movements that strengthen citizens. Death and destitution are the double net result of the coronavirus pandemic accelerated by capitalism.
Capitalist states have failed to respond to the global crisis of physical fitness and other auxiliaries of the pandemic. People face alienation and discontent in the inner confinement of life to survive. The terrible days of the coronavirus pandemic will end at some point and other people will take off their masks of fear. But let us not unmask the capitalist state and its formulas of adequacy that have failed the masses. The atomized individualism promoted through the capitalist formula is also shattered during the inevitable fatal loneliness induced by confinement. The whole bureaucracy of alienation is biological to capitalism that failed states are getting worse during this pandemic. There is an adage one learns from daily reports of the existing crisis; that the capitalist state and all its functioning has failed in the face of the pandemic. Social and political solidarity is therefore the only option in the face of capitalism and all its alienating relations.
Societies, states, governments, economy, culture and politics exist for others and by others. These entities and establishments are meaningless without the others. Therefore, it is imperative to reflect on the orientations of our lives, society and United. There are two directions. The first is to continue business as usual with the capitalist formula and suffer its barbaric pandemic of inequality and exploitation for profit. The choice of the moment is to break with that formula and focus on other people and their well-being. This is a historic opportunity to make a transparent selection of our supply and our future. The coronavirus pandemic provides an opportunity to the state apparatus and overthrows capitalism, which is destabilizing human lifestyles and defeating citizens, states and societies around the world. It is vital to move to a resolutely international, regional, national and local political and economic formula that puts others and nature at the center of its agenda.
(He is Senior Lecturer in Business Strategy at Coventry University, UK. The reviews expressed are personal).
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